enomakos:
how many goals hads emenike scores for al-ain?

zuchyblink:
Emenike has scored 5 goals in 4 matches for al ain

edi287:
We just lost Alli to England...what a shame. He's better than any young player we have in his position.

TheSuperNerd:
No he's not!!! Hey! Don't get me wrong aiiit..... He's a wonderful young talent who was just given the opportunity to showcase his wares despite being 19. Remember Mauricio Pochettino, the tottenham manager, has a knack for fielding bright young talents right from his time at Southampton FC.

He did it with Nabil bentaleb, Ryan Mason, and now Eric Dier and Alli, all at tottenham.

At Southampton he did it with Ward-prowse, Luke shaw and a few others. So it's no surprise Alli gets the chance to shine at Tottenham. I believe by the time Musa Yahaya finally signs a pro-contract in December 2015(by which time he turns 18), or latest January 2016, with tottenham, he will get his chance too with time and outshine any player in his own position. He's currently at the top of the pile among tottenham's top 10 highly rated youngsters without pro-contracts.


Now I said Dele Alli isn't the best young player Nigeria has in that position because there are still the likes of these:
1). Chidiebere Nwakali(Man City, on loan at Girona)- Like Alli, he's super versatile. Can play as a dmf, a cmf, and even a RB. Full of intelligence and energy. No wonder Man City picked him up. He's only 18-19 yrs old..

2). Ifeanyi Matthew(El-kanemi Warriors, Nigeria)- saw him at the 2015 Caf u-20 Ayc? Mehnn!!!! This guy can play. He's also super versatile and can play as an Amf, a cmf and even sometimes as a dmf. He's that good with a long range of passing that reminds you of sunday oliseh. Two of these long range passes from Matthew turned into assists for Taiwo Awoniyi who destroyed the impressive senegalese in the tournament's first match of that group. He's currently 20 I think.

3). Akinjide Elijah Idowu(Nath boys Academy): So many beautiful talents just waiting for that one big opportunity but I believe we won't witness the disappearance of a super midfield talent like Idowu. Had not gotten any foreign deal yet but I believe it's only a matter of time. This guy's main role is defensive midfield(dmf). While his side role is central midfield(cmf). He's a workaholic, a brainy workaholic. He's human but I think he plays with 8 lungs. Not even Onazi not to mention Alli comes that close to this young lad's work rate in midfield. He's that good and he's 19.

THESE "THREE PLAYERS" ABOVE ARE JUST BETTER, IF NOT FAR BETTER, THAN DELE ALLI IN 'HIS' POSITION. ALL ALLI HAS OVER THEM RIGHT NOW IS TOP-FLIGHT EXPERIENCE. THAT'S ALL.

There are a couple of others( either at par or slightly just behind Dele Alli or maybe even better) such as Usman Mohammed- 21yrs old (Fc Taraba, star member of Nigeria u-23, and Member of Nigeria's home-based Eagles), Alfa Abdullahi-19yrs (College football academy, Nigeria; star member of Nigeria's U-17 all-conquering side of 2013, etc. Small in stature but mighty in midfiel intelligence..... Also a wonder how he's yet to move abroad on a good deal. His time will come)
, and even Kingsley Sokari-20 yrs (Enyimba Int'l FC, amf and cmf, best young player of nigeria's npfl 2014 season).

SO YOU SEE SIR, ALLI OR NOT, We got them in abundance. We just got to learn to look inwards.

edi287:

I disagree. Haven't watched Nwakali, but from what I've seen of idowu and Matthew, Alli is on a whole different level compared to them.

TheSuperNerd:
Well, I don't rate the Emirates Arab league but Emenike is currently on 5 goals in 4 appearances for Al Ain.

enomakos:
thanks for the info

joseph1013:
[b][size=14pt]Disu urges Oliseh to invite Martins[/size]



Former international Tajudeen Disu has questioned the continued omission of Seattle Sounders forward Obafemi Martins from the Super Eagles by coach Sunday Oliseh despite the player’s blistering form in the Major League Soccer this season.

Martins has scored 14 goals in 18 appearances this season, and is on the verge of surpassing the 17 goals he scored last season. The former Inter Milan player has also won several Goal of the Week awards in the United States

At present, Martins has the highest number of goals than any Nigerian playing in foreign leagues. But his exclusion from the squad for this month’s friendly games against Congo and Cameroon in Belgium surprises Disu.

“Martins remains the highest scoring Nigerian player anywhere in the world but we have refused to invite him,” Disu told our correspondent on the telephone on Sunday.

“I often wonder why he has not been invited (to the Eagles). Some say the MLS is not as tough as the leagues in Europe, but we have players from Arabian leagues in the Eagles. Which league is tougher between the two? The MLS is no longer as it used to be, it is now very big and top players from Europe are moving there.”

The former Abiola Babes defender warned Oliseh not to bow to pressure to invite players not good enough for the national team.

“At this stage, the coach should know who has the quality to play for the national team. Not every player is good enough for the national team. Oliseh should only invite the best players because he has just two friendlies to build his team (ahead of the 2018 World Cup qualifier next month).”

Meanwhile, the home-based players invited by Oliseh for the friendly games in Belgium could not travel to Europe on Sunday, as earlier scheduled, due to visa problems.

“We have booked tickets for the delegation to travel from Abuja to Frankfurt on Sunday, but that can no longer happen as their passports are still at the Embassy of Belgium. As things stand now, we can only leave for Frankfurt on Monday evening, to arrive in Belgium on Tuesday, if the visas are issued on Monday,” Super Eagles’ team administrator, Enebi Achor, said.

The delay will affect Femi Thomas, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, Austin Oboroakpo, Paul Onobi, Prince Aggrey and Chima Akas.

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joseph1013:
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[size=14pt]Chukwu to Oliseh… You can’t coach Eagles from Europe[/size]



FORMER Super Eagles coach, Christian Chukwu has warned current Eagles gaffer Sunday Oliseh in clear terms that he cannot coach the national success­fully from Europe.

The captain the victori­ous Green Eagles team that won the Nations Cup for the first time in 1980 in a chat ahead of the two inter­national friendly matches against Congo and Camer­oon said that Oliseh needs to make up his mind on how he wants to coach the Super Eagles.

“The first thing that Oliseh should do is to reflect on how he was discovered and brought into the Super Eagles as a player from Ju­lius Berger FC of Lagos. What he is doing at the mo­ment with the national team is short a term plan where he will just call up players from around Europe and get them to play for the national team.”

However, Chukwu point­ed out that the problem with the short term plan is that he will never get the best out of them because the players hardly have enough time to train together and build an understanding that would help the team.”

“ As a former chief coach of the Super Eagles, the truth I need to tell Oliseh is that he cannot coach the Su­per Eagles from Europe. He should take his mind back to how he was discovered and go back to the roots. He should develop both a short term plan and a long term plan.

“The short term plan is what he is doing at the mo­ment by calling up players for matches from different parts of Europe. The prob­lem here is that the player who is scoring every week in his club may get to the national team and fumble. The simple reason is that the player already has an under­standing with his other team mates who knows his every move. Same will not be the case in the national team until they get used to each other.”

Speaking on the long term plan, Chukwu, who was also captain of Rangers International of Enugu in his playing days said Oliseh needs to take time off from Europe and spend more time in Nigeria.

“Oliseh needs to take some time off in Europe by coming back home and go­ing to match venues to see things for himself. That’s how he was spotted and brought into the national team from Julius Berger FC of Lagos. The likes of Fri­day Ekpo, John Ene Okon, Friday Elahoh, Daniel Amo­kachi, Uche Okechukwu, David Ngodigha, Peterside Idah, Ike Shorunmu and many more benefitted from the same system.

“He cannot depart from the system because these are the only set of players that he can camp as long as he wants and impact his own pattern of play into.

“Players he identifies over a period of time based on their consistency week in week out are the ones he can put together and inculcate in them his own style of play that will differentiate him from others before him. The reason most players run to Europe is simply because only foreign based players are given preferen­tial treatment sort of. The players in the league don’t want to spend time in the domestic league because they no longer believe that they will get the same op­portunity as their foreign based counterparts. So, if Oliseh builds the nucleus of his team around the do­mestic league players, he would get the desired re­sult in no time,” Chukwu stressed.

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